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After legalization, Jim Blanchard was a prominent figure in America's gold industry, [4] [5] founding an influential [6] newsletter called Gold News, publishing a memoir called Confessions of a Gold Bug, and founding one of the investment industry's longest-running conferences, [7] which has included speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Milton ...
A new gold bar scam is fleecing unsuspecting victims across the U.S. out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It starts with a phone call, where an official-sounding person convinces you they’re ...
The fake-agent scam is often targeted against industry newcomers, since they will often lack the experience required to spot such tricks. Legitimate talent agencies advise that a genuine talent agent will never ask for money up-front, as they make their entire living from commissions on their clients' earnings.
As strange as the gold bar scam strategy may seem, a similar plot was recently carried out in Maryland — leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old California man, Wenhui Sun, Maryland authorities ...
This is story of “Operation Goldfinger,” how police sprang into action to try and prevent con artists from stealing a hunk of a Georgia couple’s life savings.
International Gold Bullion Exchange was founded in 1979 by brothers William and James Alderdice. It grew to be reportedly the largest retail gold bullion dealer in the United States. [1] It offered sale and storage of gold and silver bullion and coins. The company would sell gold bullion at a discount if the buyer agreed to postpone taking ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Protect yourself from dangerous scam. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a spike in similar gold bar scams, which target vulnerable seniors. Between May and December 2023, victims ...